User Guide

Yealink IP Phones Auto Provisioning Guide
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required. If boot file is not found on the provisioning server, IP phones download the common
CFG file first, and then the MAC-Oriented CFG file during auto provisioning – i.e., the old
mechanism for auto provisioning. You can select whether to use the boot file or not for auto
provisioning according to your deployment scenario.
IP phones also support local configuration files named as <MAC>-local.cfg. When a user
modifies configurations via web user interface or phone user interface, the non-static settings
will be automatically saved to the MAC-local CFG file on the IP phone.
You can ask the distributor or Yealink FAE for template configuration files. You can also obtain
the template configuration files online:
http://support.yealink.com/documentFront/forwardToDocumentFrontDisplayPage.
To download template configuration files:
1. Go to Yealink Document Download page and select the desired phone model.
2. Download and extract the combined configuration files to your local system.
For example, the following illustration shows the template files available for SIP-T23G IP
phones running firmware version 80.
3. Open the folder you extracted and identify the files you will edit.
Obtaining Phone Information
Before beginning provisioning, you also need the IP phone information. For example, MAC
address and the SIP account information of the IP phone.
MAC Address: The unique 12-digit serial number of the IP phone. You can obtain it from the
bar code on the back of the IP phone.
SIP Account Information: This may include SIP credentials such as user name, password and IP
address of the SIP server. Ask your system administrator for SIP account information.